राजनीति में कोई दिलचस्पी नहीं रखने वाला एक श्वेत मध्यवर्गीय दक्षिण अफ्रीकी उपनगरीय व्यक्ती अपने काले माली को उसके जेल में बंद बेटे को खोजने में मदद करने के लिए तैयार होता है. उसकी जांच गुप्त... सभी पढ़ेंराजनीति में कोई दिलचस्पी नहीं रखने वाला एक श्वेत मध्यवर्गीय दक्षिण अफ्रीकी उपनगरीय व्यक्ती अपने काले माली को उसके जेल में बंद बेटे को खोजने में मदद करने के लिए तैयार होता है. उसकी जांच गुप्त पुलिस द्वारा की गई भयावहता को उजागर करती है और खुद उसे एक लक्ष्य में बदल देती है.राजनीति में कोई दिलचस्पी नहीं रखने वाला एक श्वेत मध्यवर्गीय दक्षिण अफ्रीकी उपनगरीय व्यक्ती अपने काले माली को उसके जेल में बंद बेटे को खोजने में मदद करने के लिए तैयार होता है. उसकी जांच गुप्त पुलिस द्वारा की गई भयावहता को उजागर करती है और खुद उसे एक लक्ष्य में बदल देती है.
- निर्देशक
- लेखक
- स्टार
- 1 ऑस्कर के लिए नामांकित
- 2 जीत और कुल 9 नामांकन
- Captain Stolz
- (as Jurgen Prochnow)
- Susan's Father
- (as David De Keyser)
फ़ीचर्ड समीक्षाएं
The part with Marlon Brando as the human rights lawyers is particularly good exposing the ludicrous nature of a system that is completely repressive while maintaining the fiction that it is not.
This film should be compulsory viewing in any educational course studying recent African history
A personal reminiscence:-
I was living in Zimbabwe from 87-89 and I remember when the film was being shot on location there. They were shooting the scene at the end when it is raining but it was during the dry season in Zimbabwe in the local news they recorded the fact that they'd had to make their own rain with lots of hoses etc.
A Dry White Season was originally a novel concerned with the aftermath of the famous Soweto Massacre when South African troops fired on a protest of black Bantu children being forced to learn in Afrikaans the language of the oppressor as Desmond Tutu so eloquently put it.
The son of the gardener at Donald Sutherland's estate is killed in Soweto and his body is not returned. After which the gardener Winston Ntshona is picked up by the special branch of the South African Police for asking too many questions and later he dies in prison the result of a suicide which no one with a functioning brain believes. At that point Sutherland decides to intervene himself.
Sutherland plays a history teacher in a white only school and as he learns about what's going on and starts asking the questions he dare not ask before even to himself. His radicalization is total, but it costs him dear, his wife Janet Suzman and his daughter Sussanah Harker leave him, but his young son Rowen Elnes sticks with dad.
It's not that he doesn't gain a few new friends, African National Congress organizer Zakes Mokae, crusading journalist Susan Sarandon, and human rights attorney Marlon Brando. But he also gains a bitter and malevolent enemy in Special Branch Captain Jurgen Prochnow who apparently does damage control for the government. That includes outright murder of suspected opposition to the apartheid government.
Every actor worth his salt loves a courtroom scene and Marlon Brando might have even come back for that in this film as well as the anti- apartheid cause. He got the film's only Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, but lost to Denzel Washington for Glory. I suspect given Marlon's history with Oscar folks were reluctant to vote for him.
The film really belongs to star Donald Sutherland though and I think it a pity he wasn't given any Oscar nomination for this fine film with an eternal message about freedom.
It is a film shot by Euzhan Palcy in 1997 which is based from a novel by André Brink.
The main characters are Ben du Toit played by Donald Sutherland, Captain Stolz played by Jürgen Prochnow, Stanley played by Zakes Mokae and Gordon played by Winston Ntshona.
The plot deals with apartheid in South Africa in 1976. A naïve history teacher Ben du Toit decides to avenge his gardener's death, Gordon, a black man. He is tortured to death by the white police. Ben becomes aware of the issue of segregation in his country and he sides with the blacks.
We all liked this film because it gave another vision of apartheid, more shocking and violent than the one we had imagined. This film is educative because too many people ignore what white men did to the blacks at that time and even recently. Nowadays, colored people endure discrimination in many countries even if apartheid, slavery have been abolished, so it is a very interesting film, it shows a real and current problem : racism which still exists in our society. We don't know if it can make people's mentalities evolve but it will certainly make people question themselves.
We would recommend this film to our friends because we think people are not informed enough about apartheid.
That story is NOT the story of A Dry White season, but it is of a kindred spirit. Like the gesture of Trevor Huddleston, the story of Ben de Tor is a gesture against apartheid. A glimmer of hope, but merely that, a flicker.
It must be five years since I saw a Dry White Season but I still remember how I felt leaving the cinema. It is a film which will stay with you.
The plot follows a white South African on an adventure through bewilderment, revelation, denial, disgust, and a futile attempt to fight a grossly unfair system.
I can't go into detail after this length of time but the cameos in this film would be worth the video rental. Marlon Brando (yes) steals the show as the lawyer who knows exactly how hopeless the fight against apartheid is but agrees to fight anyway.
The political situation today in South Africa is a world away from that of A Dry White Season. Watch it and never forget.
Manny Wah Hong Kong
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाWith this movie, writer and director Euzhan Palcy became the first Black woman to direct a major Hollywood movie.
- गूफ़When the camera pulls away from the court house (Harare City Hall) a bus drives past displaying an advertisement for Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, which flew to Zimbabwe, but not to South Africa under apartheid during the 1970s.
- भाव
Ian McKenzie: Justice and law, Mr. Du Toit, are often just... well they're, I suppose they can be described as distant cousins. And here in South Africa, well, they're simply not on speaking terms at all.
- साउंडट्रैकUnomatheba
Written by Joseph Shabalala
Performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records
Produced by Danny Lawson for Night After Night, Ltd.
टॉप पसंद
- How long is A Dry White Season?Alexa द्वारा संचालित
विवरण
बॉक्स ऑफ़िस
- बजट
- $90,00,000(अनुमानित)
- US और कनाडा में सकल
- $37,66,879
- US और कनाडा में पहले सप्ताह में कुल कमाई
- $2,02,507
- 24 सित॰ 1989
- दुनिया भर में सकल
- $37,66,879
- चलने की अवधि1 घंटा 46 मिनट
- रंग
- ध्वनि मिश्रण
- पक्ष अनुपात
- 1.85 : 1